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This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, and in some cases the grouping may have no scientific basis. Contents:
Long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) Note: Often only black and white. Western ground snake (Sonora semiannulata) Note: Extremely variable appearance; Western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus) Western milk snake (Lampropeltis gentilis) Western patch-nosed snake (Salvadora hexilepis) Western shovelnose snake (Sonora occipitalis)
Small dark fossorial snake with flat indistinct head, and smooth scales. [1] Scarlet snake (Cemophora coccinea). Bright red, white, and black bands that do not extend around the belly. Black bands surround the white, touching the red. Tip of nose is red. [2] Black racer (Coluber constrictor). Adults are long, thin, and entirely black except for ...
The pine snake, Pituophis melanoleucus, gets its Latin name from "melano" meaning black and "leucos" which means white. This is in reference to its black and white body. Three subspecies of Pituophis melanoleucus are currently recognized: Nominate subspecies P. m. melanoleucus (Daudin, 1803), the northern pine snake; P. m. lodingi (Blanchard ...
the Black Hills redbelly snake subspecies is found within the Black Hills of South Dakota 8 - 11 inches in length, slender body with grey, brown, or reddish-brown colouration, with a white chin, red belly, light spots on neck, and faint light stripe(s) along the back Redbelly snake ("northern" subspecies) Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata
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The forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), also commonly called the black cobra and the black and white-lipped cobra, [4] is a species of highly venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to Africa , mostly the central and western parts of the continent. [ 5 ]
The bandy-bandy is a smooth-scaled, glossy snake with a distinctive pattern of sharply contrasting black and white rings that continue right around the body. Bandy-bandys are strikingly distinguishable from other Australian land snakes by their unique banding pattern, [ 3 ] which gives the species both its common names and its scientific name ...